Map of Aboriginal Australia.
‘Their stone-tool technology predates European and Asian usage by thousands of years. Aboriginal social organisation was highly complicated, their religion deep and complex, their art and myths rich and varied. Of note was their strong and foolproof system of incest prohibition, their system of kinship, reciprocity, and child-rearing. United by religious and totemic ties, Aborigines held their land in trust, collectively and in perpetuity’ – Colin Tatz, Genocide in Australia, kooriweb.org
The “was” here makes it sound like the Indigenous peoples of Australia are all gone, or no longer have those cultures and spiritualities, or are no longer attempting to be custodians of the land. They still carry on, even though they faced genocide, and now face discrimination and the social, political and financial turmoil resulting from that genocide.
Just figured I should add that for any international followers who might wish to know.